Improvement in metal-clad shingles



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Letters Patent No. 113,882, dated April 1,8, 1871.

IMPROVEMENT IN METAL-CLAD SHINGLES.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom it may conce/rn:

^ Bc it known that I, THOMAS M. HrcKcox, of' the city of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and improved Shingie; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description Vof the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing forming part of this specification.

This invention consists in what I call a metal-clad shingle, composed cfa piece of straw-board, binders board, or other paper-board, of veneer or thin wood, having one of. its sides and its edges covered with sheet-iron or other metal plate, by laying such plate on suchside and lapping it over the edges.

Figure 1 in the drawing is a face view of a metalclad shingle;

Figure 2 is a hack view ofthe same; and

Figure 3 is a longitudinal section of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures. i

A is the piece of straw or other board, or thm wood, cut to the required size and shape to form the body of the shingle;

B is the metal plate winch forms the covering of the exterior surface and edges oi' the shingle. `plate I propose generally to make of thin sheeteiro though it might he of tin-plate or other sheet metal.v It is cutof aform corresponding with the body B and of a size sufiiciently larger to cover the exterior surface of the latter and lap over the edges, and a short distance,y say from one quarter to half an inch over 'A shingle composed of straw or other board, or

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the back thereof, as shown ata a, in figs. 2 and 3, and its margin is closed and clamped tightly over the edges of A in a suitable press.

After it has been thus applied and secured its snrface should preferably be painted with oil-paint or other suitable water-proof compound, and may be sanded. The painting may, however, be omitted un; tilv after the shingles are applied.

The metal-clad shingles thus made may be applied and secured to a building -in the same way as ordinary shingles or slates hy nailing through them, and when so applied form a perfectly water-proof and fire-proof and very durable covering.

The bodies A of these metal-clad shingles may, before being covered with the metal plate B, besoaked or boiled in linse'ed-oil or other suitable oil or waterproof material or compound. j

I am aware that sheet-metal roofing has been used with felt or other similar material glued or cemented to its under side; this I do not claim as any part of my invention; but

W'hat I claim as my invent' byIlettersf-Patent, -is1" anld Vdesire to secure wood clad with sheet metal in the manner described, as a new article of manufacture. l@

' WMWMMWTQMASNTIIIGKOX Witnesses:

J oHN GODDINGTON, RICH. C. REYNOLDS. 

